[coreboot] [PATCH] flashrom: Handle broken functions

[Peter Stuge]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > All unknown SPI chips claim to have status UNTESTED for
> > probe/read/erase/write. That's incorrect. Since the chips are unknown,
> > read/erase/write are unavailable for them. And if probe worked, they
> > wouldn't have needed the generic vendor match in the first place. Mark
> > those chips as BAD for probe/read/erase/write.
> >
> > That change revealed another bug:
> > If a chip has any TEST_BAD_* flag set, we don't even list the
> > unsupported functions, giving the user the impression that the
> > unsupported functions are tested.
> > Fix that bug as well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>
> >   
> Thanks to Uwe for testing and finding a bug.

Nak.

Unknown chips can not be tested and known to be bad, which is what
TEST_BAD_ means.

If anything, please remove the unknown chips.


The TEST_BAD_ logic improvement is good, but I would like it to
explicitly test each flag instead of assuming that TEST_OK_ and
TEST_BAD_ flags will overlap. That may not always be the case. Also
the _SHIFT define isn't so nice imo. Fix those and that part is:

Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>